Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
Putrajaya should ratify Arms Trade Treaty, says DAP
The DAP has called on Putrajaya to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
FMT Reporters | March 29, 2015
IPOH: The DAP has called on Putrajaya to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal...
PM seeks King’s approval to lift martial law
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday said he has forwarded a draft announcement lifting martial law to His Majesty the King for endorsement.
Published: 31/03/2015 at 05:09 PM
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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday said he has forwarded a draft announcement lifting martial law to His Majesty the King for...
Thai court rules that prolonged detention of Uighur family is legal
A Thai criminal court ruled on Friday that the prolonged detention of 17 suspected Uighur was legal, but did not specify which country - Turkey or China - they should be sent back to.
ANADOLU AGENCY | BANGKOK | Published March 27, 2015
A Thai criminal court ruled on Friday that...
PH govt exhausting all means to save Filipina from Indonesian death row
By: Philippines News Agency | InterAksyon.com
March 29, 2015 12:49 AM
InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5
MANILA, Philippines - (UPDATED 3:14 A.M.) The government is doing everything it can to save a Filipina who has been sentenced to die in Indonesia after she was caught transporting illegal narcotics into the country,...
Thailand among group in Southeast Asia not abolishing death penalty: UN report
THAILAND ranks somewhere in the middle among nations in Southeast Asia when it comes to abolishing the death penalty, with the Kingdom criticised for a "lack of tangible advancement" towards abolishing executions in a United Nations report released yesterday (Fri).
Pravit Rojanaphruk
The Nation
March 28, 2015 1:00 am
THAILAND ranks somewhere in...
Moving Away from the Death Penalty: Lessons in South-East Asia
This publication of the OHCHR Regional Office for South-East Asia comes at a very important juncture where there is a sense that the entire region is ‘moving away’ from capital punishment. Some States are fully abolitionist (Cambodia, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines), others are abolitionist in practice (Brunei Darussalam, Lao...
Social media policing needed to fight terror threat: Malaysia
Critics in Malaysia have raised concern the policing of social media, which recently saw an activist lawyer arrested, could be subject to abuse. But authorities argue enforcement is necessary to combat the threat of terrorism.
By Sumisha Naidu
POSTED: 25 Mar 2015 22:17
UPDATED: 26 Mar 2015 00:04
KUALA LUMPUR: Critics in Malaysia...
Indonesian President Unyielding on Death Penalty
“There are no statistics of a deterrent effect with the death penalty. Jokowi is using the death penalty to prove to his critics that he is firm." -- Haris Azhar, coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras)
By Sandra Siagian
JAKARTA, Mar 26 2015 (IPS)...
CA orders protection for human rights lawyer
The Court of Appeals has ordered the government to ensure the safety of human rights lawyer and National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers founding member Maria Catherine Dannug-Salucon
March 25, 2015 9:15pm
The Court of Appeals has ordered the government to ensure the safety of human rights lawyer and National Union of...
PNP, AFP also have human rights
For the past weeks, Filipinos from all parts of the globe condemned the atrocity that snuffed out the lives of 44 Special Action Force (SAF) commandos on January 25, while on a mission to capture two known terrorists – Zulkifli bin Hir alias “Marwan” who was killed and Basit...
